WiM060 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 7 | Religion and Other Sacred Canopies

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST John’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john John’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke John’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY PODCAST Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1 RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:05 NYDIG 00:01:25 Distributed Cognition Can Be Self-Deceptive 00:05:18 Collapse of the Bronze Age and The Logic of Violence 00:09:44 Economics of Violence: Knighthood and Gunpowder 00:14:26 Insight Machinery: Finding vs. Solving Problems 00:16:31 Distributed Cognition: An Adaptive Response of Ancient Man 00:19:21 General Systems Collapse 00:25:53 Voluntary Exchange and Habermas’s Discourse Ethics 00:31:21 Reconciling Science and Religion? 00:35:33 The Purposes of Religion? 00:39:42 Sacred Canopies: Religion and Money? 00:43:37 Assimilating and Accommodating with Religion 00:45:01 Religion as Distributed Cognition’s Salience Landscaping 00:48:57 Bitcoin as the Lapis Philosophorum 00:53:24 “Symbolic Machinery of Identification Changes Behavior” 00:57:50 “Now We are Becoming Friends” 01:01:52 Theory, Morality, and Virtue Epistemology 01:03:36 Personal Transformations through Bitcoin 01:07:55 “Software Updates” to Distributed Cognition 01:11:37 The Self-Disruption of Social Institutions? 01:12:43 The Old Virtue of Being Understanding SOCIAL Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=en All My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​ WRITTEN WORK Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528 The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES Worldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/ Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217 Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmg IBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/ Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/